An Israel Defense Forces unit specializing in underground warfare has revealed the Hamas terror group’s deepest known tunnel to Israeli television on Friday. Members of the military’s Yahalom unit said the tunnel from the southern part of the Gaza Strip descends to 70 meters (230 feet) beneath the earth’s surface.
TimesofIsrael Israeli forces found the tunnel after Israel’s anti-tunnel barrier detected anomalous underground activity, in the first operational success for the barrier, before it was completed along the entire border with Gaza. “This is the deepest Hamas tunnel we have discovered, and it’s an asset to them,” an IDF officer said. “We caught them right in the middle of their work,” the officer said.
The IDF discovered the tunnel while it was still under construction and halted its progress inside Israeli territory Hamas intended for the tunnel to extend farther to attack Israeli communities or military facilities.
Terror tunnels emanating from Gaza had plagued southern Israel for years and were a central reason for the 2014 conflict between Gaza terror groups and Israeli troops, who crossed into the Strip to destroy cross-border tunnels. During that war, called Operation Protective Edge, Israel destroyed some 30 tunnels that penetrated into Israel, and since the war, an additional 20.
Az gal says
Well, rats like to dig… We have a similar problem on the US border to Mexico. Many say the whole town will collapse (Nogales). Tunnels not for terror, but drugs, mostly. Until the Muslums get ahold of them.
Linda Rivera says
Thank You and praise You MERCIFUL God that You had the IDF discover the dirty, demonic Muslim terrorist tunnel.
I’m Forever grateful to our Most Wonderful God, the Precious HOLY ONE of Israel for His kindness and great goodness which endures forever.
Pray Hard says
Flood it with pig farm sewage.
Me says
Much better to stampede a couple of hundred pigs down into the tunnel and let Mother Nature do the hard work for you.
They will crap in the tunnels making it unusable, some may even get shot and killed by the muslime but the majority will run to the other end instilling terror within the muslime ranks as they go.
Death by pig, no 72 virgins for them – every muslime’s nitemare lol
Cleavis W Nowell says
The tunnels are good to run feral stray dogs into as well. Pigs are pork protein to not be wasted.
livingengine says
Belal Muhammad is a Hamas supporter – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55QUYlT-hss
Shirley Ann says
When the US DEM “VOTING BLOCS” STOP delivering CASH & VOTES for the Muslim Terrorists, whose intention is to destroy not only Israel, but the USA, the Repulsive Muslim Tribes will pull up their Tents, Their Butcher Halls & Their Sharia Laws & go UNDERGROUND. The DEMS & RINOS “Should follow in their Hoof claws.”
The Thinker says
Think of all the ancient and medieval archeological relics and ancient palentological fossils destroyed by Hamas in their digging a huge, long tunnel 230 feet underground in Israel along the southern part of the border with Gaza.
bioya1 says
We, the USA, is paying for this. Thanks Bidumb!
Twiz says
Just blow up the tunnel under the Gaza portion. This will cause damage to the infrastructure above. Blowing up as many tunnels as they find will eventually turn Gaza into a giant sinkhole, swallowing them up. Well, we can always hope.
VMS says
And all the aid that the US and Europe gives to Gaza for infrastructure goes into making terror tunnels. Trump shut off US aid, which Biden reinstated.
Israel, upon discovery of a tunnel, should ensure that the tunnel is blown up with as many palis inside as possible.
sixlittlerabbits says
Wow! Hamas is diabolical. Maybe their next tunnel will go down to Hell (we can only hope). Glad Israelis discovered this latest attempt.